The Nevada Senate race is, in many ways, a three-way in which none of the above could be a spoiler for Angle.
The floodwaters are starting to recede, although the disaster is far from over.
Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally raises, yet again, the tiresome fight over crowd estimates and their political significance.
The numbers still show an exceptionally close Senate race in Nevada. They also show that a different GOP nominee would have meant a very different scenario.
Elation at discovering 33 miners still alive after over two weeks of looking for them is giving way to the reality that it will take roughly 4 months to get them out.
Ok, Saudi Arabia has less freedom than the US. Why do some people think that should form the basis of an argument about appropriate behavior in the US?
Why would returning to the system of allowing state legislatures to choose Senators improve representation?
Representative Ron Paul does not mince words on the subject of the Park51 project.
Yes, when you blame one group of people for the actions of other, especially irrationally so, that qualifies as scapegoating.
Some of our politicians and commentators are looking to odd places for guidance over the application of fundamental American values.
A quick flip-flop from Swedish authorities on a very serious charge.
A small slice of what people at the epicenter of the Park51 controversy have to say.
If the response to Cordoba House isn’t basically being anti-Muslim, what is it?
Colombia’s Constitutional Court has struck down a US basing rights deal.
Given public opinion on the proposed Islamic community center that is currently cominating the news, we would expect that opposition to the project would be strongest in Manhattan itself.
A major part of the problem with the seeming growing wave of anti-Muslim sentiment in some quarters of US politics is that it seems to equate Islam as “the enemy.” If that’s the case, then US foreign policy has some ‘splainin’ to do.
Again, despite the rhetoric of some, the US does continue to enforce laws relevant to the border and, indeed, enforcement has been on the rise.
If it was called the “Burlington Coat Factory community center” would anyone care about Cordoba House?
Shockingly, the Tea Party as a generic movement is more popular than congressional leadership. Interestingly, the Democrats are still slightly more popular than the Tea Party and the Reps are in third.
Remember when dealing with the utterances of Hugo Chávez that you should take them with a grain of salt (or twelve).
Hezbollah can tolerate the restoration of a synagogue, but many Americans are apoplectic about a Muslim community center and mosque two blocks from where the WTC once stood.
Colombia has sworn in a new president. And so begins the Santos era as the Uribe era heads for the history books.
Wherein only one of the various consequences of altering the current status of birthright citizenship is considered: more paperwork for us all.
While it is true, as Jacob Sullum puts it, On Drug Policy, Mexico’s President Has a Bigger Vocabulary Than Ours, it is also true as the headline at Gancho puts it he has Problems with the Legalization Debate (specifically in terms of popular opinion in Mexico).
While it may be true that facts are stubborn things, a lot of American are stubborn in the face of them.
Sharron Angle has moved on from Second Amendment solutions to First Commandment ones…
How does the Electoral College influence policy and campaigning?
Despite assertions that the violence in Mexico is spilling over the border, we find a rather stark comparison of two key border cities.